Women Assemble

<p>Why did working-class women become the central labour force on assembly lines in the new consumer goods’ industries of the inter-war period? What was the long-term significance of this for the pattern of women’s work both in paid employment and in the home?</p><p>Originally published in 1990 <i>Women Assemble</i> fills a major gap in the history of women and work and develops a theory of women’s class relations and of course gender and class more generally by means of an original case-study. Taken from a wide variety of sources it uses a multidisciplinary approach and is brought to life by interviews with people who worked in assembly-line industries during the inter-war period.</p><p>This extremely readable study is important to feminists historians and sociologists as well as to all those concerned with issues of gender class and the labour process. </p>